Death, Dying And Death

Jacob Fuessel Fuessel 1

Mrs. Mallon

Composition

January 18, 2014

How can Death, Dying, and Religion differ per person?

Throughout Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom, Morrie discusses his outlook on Dying, Death, Religion, and how Religion can help someone cope with these topics. Morrie’s experience with dying is talked about often in and is a major topic of the novel. Death, which is the end to life, is different to everyone who experiences it partially due to beliefs. Morrie’s understanding of religions help his mindset during his horrible times. An individual’s outlook on the topic of dying and death is partially influenced by society’s contrasting beliefs.

As you read the novel, Morrie talks about his experience with dying and everything he has done to convert his experience into a positive one. In the chapter “The Fourth Tuesday We Talk About Death,” Morrie began to elaborate on the final outcome of life. He connected his experience of dying with religion and explains how religion can have such an impact on others in this process. In the novel, Morrie says to Mitch, “The truth is Mitch, once you learn how to die you learn how to live.” (Albom 82) In this instance, Morrie doesn’t specifically talk about religion and it’s assistance in dying but it does explain how Morrie lived his last few months of life. Morrie learned that he had to overcome the fact that he was going to die so life could become easy. Morrie tried to teach Mitch that dying is the hardest thing in life and once you learn to do so, everything else becomes easy. The second quote from the literary criticism article, Yom

Fuessel 2

Kippur with Morrie, by Harold M. Schulweis does talk about the assistance of religion in dying. Schulwe...

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... their parent, or guardian, or the person they look up to. The influence of religion is significant because it gives people a single minded approach towards death, dying, other religions, and the world. Having a single minded approach towards religion can stop a person from living life and experiencing things other would tend to. The influence of religion can be very dangerous, such as religious persecution. But things like religious persecution usually happen when, again, religion is single minded, or one only practices in one religion. In Morrie’s case, religion was helpful

Fuessel 5 because it helped Morrie cope with death and dying. This was because Morrie accepted many different religions into his life and combined them. So yes, religion will differ a person’s view on death and dying but only because people become single minded in their thinking.